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    I’ll just mention that in Italy the word for potato is also used to refer to pussy.

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    Potatoes are also one of the few foods you can live almost entirely on. If you eat the skin. They have about everything you need, unlike all other staple foods. The problem is you need a lot of them, and they get weird if they freeze. But you could dry them.

    Peruvians used to smash them on the rocks and freeze dry them in the cold Andean air to preserve them for the winters up there above 10k feet.

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          The Martian. He gets trapped on Mars, and calculates out how long it’s going to take to get rescued, how much food he will require, and decides to create a potato farm, and grow potatoes in a his own poop.

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    They forgot that you can make a potato into a perfectly suitable pipe for smoking weed. Also an apple.

    When you got weed and no papers, you get creative.

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    Those aren‘t just anxiety drugs. Lorazepam is a literal Benzo. Which means it literally depresses (ie. makes less active) your CNS (brain).

    These drugs are highly addictive and tolerance forming. They‘re often prescribed for insomnia since they inhibit brain signalling.

    Once your brain forms tolerance it increases excitatory signalling to „counter“ the drug. Which means if you abruptly stop, you get withdrawal. Your brain is „overactive“ you have seizures, loads of horrible symptoms, in some cases people die.

    (Not trying to scare people, short term or sporadic use is actually decently safe, it‘s long term high dose use which is dangerous. But basically my point is „anxiety drug“ is underselling what this is.)

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      Lorazepam’s main purpose is to treat anxiety, though. Calling it an anxiety drug is completely accurate

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      Does this mean that, if I were to take a benzo right before sleep, I shouldn’t dream?

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        Nah you can still dream. It just means your brain is less active than if you didn’t take the benzo. But some benzos and especially benzo-like drugs can actually give you weird hallucination-type dreams. Specifically thinking of Z-drugs.

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            Ever since I became chronically ill I feel like I dream way more and my dreams are less comfortable…

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    This might be pro-potato propaganda from big potato to drive up demand after the potato market crash in Europe. I’m gonna make mash with mine.

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      “What’s up you guys? This is Tater-Todd and welcome to my four hour deep dive into the Disturbing History of the Yukon Gold Potato…”

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      Sorry, I need a potato themed wiafu vtuber or It’s not going to hold my attention.